Nick Rogers
Western Thunderer
Good morning Geoff (and anyone else who might read this),
Lovely work as always. Very inspirational! I must crack on with something next week during my down time.
It’s interesting to see how people feel about diesel traction. I am very much a ‘steam man’ despite being born in the last years of 1980s.
As many of you know, I work on the railway as a Train Manager (guard). I spend most of my time working on IETs… horrid things! Easiest traction to work as a guard, but they don’t have any charm or interest for me. The traction I enjoy working most are the old HST 2+4 Castle sets down, now sadly banished to Cornwall, with one odd diagram allowing them to stretch their legs on the Devon banks up to Exeter one a day. Dispatching with your head out of the TGS window, the power car growling away as the driver accelerates through the steps is my kind of train working!
I can see how people look back at different times with nostalgia. If I were ever to model ‘modern image’ it would be early to mid 1990s - intercity livery with the older traction still in revenue earning service. I do find the modern network quite boring - indeed, I thoroughly enjoy a trip to Westbury on a turn simply as I might get a glimpse of a 60 or 66 propelling a rake of wagons! Propelling… now there’s something you don’t see every day. Bar Par, where 66s shunt clay wagons into Chaple sidings, I don’t think I’ve ever seen propelling outside these locations in the South West. I know it still happens, but it isn’t often seen. So I do get the argument of not being interested in certain things, or a preference for one era over another.
I can, and do, appreciate modern imagine/diesel modelling, as I can say, with a degree of authority now, that’s right/wrong. He’s approaching that platform too fast! That’s accelerating way too quickly! Where is the TGS in that formation? We don’t couple up like that! And so on.
It is an interesting thing to ponder why we model a certain era. Mine is purely nostalgia and rose tinted glasses!
Regards,
Nick.
Lovely work as always. Very inspirational! I must crack on with something next week during my down time.
It’s interesting to see how people feel about diesel traction. I am very much a ‘steam man’ despite being born in the last years of 1980s.
As many of you know, I work on the railway as a Train Manager (guard). I spend most of my time working on IETs… horrid things! Easiest traction to work as a guard, but they don’t have any charm or interest for me. The traction I enjoy working most are the old HST 2+4 Castle sets down, now sadly banished to Cornwall, with one odd diagram allowing them to stretch their legs on the Devon banks up to Exeter one a day. Dispatching with your head out of the TGS window, the power car growling away as the driver accelerates through the steps is my kind of train working!
I can see how people look back at different times with nostalgia. If I were ever to model ‘modern image’ it would be early to mid 1990s - intercity livery with the older traction still in revenue earning service. I do find the modern network quite boring - indeed, I thoroughly enjoy a trip to Westbury on a turn simply as I might get a glimpse of a 60 or 66 propelling a rake of wagons! Propelling… now there’s something you don’t see every day. Bar Par, where 66s shunt clay wagons into Chaple sidings, I don’t think I’ve ever seen propelling outside these locations in the South West. I know it still happens, but it isn’t often seen. So I do get the argument of not being interested in certain things, or a preference for one era over another.
I can, and do, appreciate modern imagine/diesel modelling, as I can say, with a degree of authority now, that’s right/wrong. He’s approaching that platform too fast! That’s accelerating way too quickly! Where is the TGS in that formation? We don’t couple up like that! And so on.
It is an interesting thing to ponder why we model a certain era. Mine is purely nostalgia and rose tinted glasses!
Regards,
Nick.
